Man, I've treated water maybe 15 times in my life, all of it in the Eastern US. Never in Montana, going back to 1992.
Fond memories of drinking from lakes in Northern Ontario canoe trips without treatment when young. Didn't get sick those times.
Yeah, have a climbing buddy that followed that school of thought...told me he was going to drink from a waterfall (true Wilderness area)...told him he should treat it first...he was sick from giardia (giardiasis) for oh...about six weeks.
Sez he'll NEVER do THAT again!
